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originally posted by: DAVID64
Also, why would you believe someone who wrote down what they believed God said to them and not some random person off the street ?
originally posted by: CthulhuMythos
told me to kill my child my first reaction would be to tell it to F*ck off and secondly ask why
A question for the faithful
originally posted by: olaru12
A question for the faithful
I also have a question....
I've always wondered that when God anoints someone does that give them special religious dispensation that normal humans don't have?
And what is the criteria to qualify for an anointlment.
religionnews.com...
originally posted by: Timber13
I'll add - Why test his faith if he already knows he will do it?
If you heard a voice in your head telling you to sacrifice one of your kids or something equally questionable, would you do it ?
Or would you seek medical help ?
originally posted by: DAVID64
if you heard a voice in your head telling you to sacrifice one of your kids or something equally questionable, would you do it ?
Or would you seek medical help ?
Also, why would you believe someone who wrote down what they believed God said to them and not some random person off the street ?
originally posted by: DAVID64
2000 years ago and even before that, God spoke to people, they did what he said and no one thought twice.
Abraham was going to kill his son because God wanted to test him and he was going to do it.
originally posted by: DAVID64
For a long time now, if someone claims "God told me to do it" they lock them up and give them medicine because they're deemed insane. For those of you who are deeply religious, if you heard a voice in your head telling you to sacrifice one of your kids or something equally questionable, would you do it ?
originally posted by: DAVID64
Also, why would you believe someone who wrote down what they believed God said to them and not some random person off the street ?
The New in the Old is concealed.
The Old in the New is revealed.
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[a] anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer...
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours out speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech, nor are there words,
whose voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.